Word: screws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds rather confident that her daughter is doing well on her own. Little does she know the money and time I've spent on necessities The List didn't list: fishnet stockings for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, five sets of cards for one round of Egyptian Rat Screw (the game can get vicious), birthday candles and Entenmann's chocolate cake from Store 24 for surprise birthday parties and a $9 can of compressed air to get the microwave popcorn kernals out of my keyboard...
...life were in danger." She ends up landing right at the heart of America's silent consensus: she doesn't want abortion outlawed, but she doesn't want it easy. "Maybe the government should say that you can have one and only one abortion," she says. "But if you screw up and want to have one again, that...
...given us the butch heroine--at once babe, district attorney and driving-men-crazy. She can be a victim, in, say, Thelma & Louise, an outlaw fantasy in which the women's suicide is seen as a magnificent screw-you gesture. Or she can be a victor, in Waiting to Exhale, where most of the guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace...
...show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair the damage by confessing their "screw-up" to Kuwait's Emir, and a deployment that Kuwait had in fact urged on Washington quickly went ahead...
...thing that got me was how I'd changed. Two, three years ago, I'd have said "Heeeeehaaawww!!" and busted out to about 80. Screw the other cars--being the fastest one on the road means you're the winner. Screw cops--I can stay away from them. And even if they catch me, who cares? A ticket is a small price to pay for feeling alive...